“In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 12, this procurement will be processed as a commercial item acquisition. This procurement consists of one solicitation with the intent to award one IDIQ Facilities Support Contract Services to commercially lease between 400 and 600, 100% electric vehicles for use at the Navy and Marine Corps installations located in California including but not limited to: Naval Base San Diego, Naval Base Point Loma, Naval Base Coronado, NAF El Centro, Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Naval Base Ventura County, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Naval Air Station Lemoore, Naval Support Activity Monterey, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, MCB Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twenty-Nine Palms. Services to be performed under the resulting contract may include the following Facilities Support (FSC) Services: passenger vehicle leasing, providing web-based telematics services, roadside assistance services, and preventative maintenance services.

This is an UNRESTRICTED procurement – any size business may submit a proposal. The basic contract period will be for 12 months, with two (2) 12-month options for a total maximum duration of 36 months. The Government will not synopsize the options. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 532112 and the size standard is $38.5 million dollars.”

The Buy America Act allows sales from all the countries we trade agreements with and that includes Japn, Tiawan, and most of the countries in Europe. Even “American” auto manufacturers get a lot of their parts from other countries. I think it’s impossible to buy only American when you are talking about automobiles.

What’s with the reference to the cartoon cars? The Navy is looking to lease real, every day BEVs. I would like to know what models were selected and if the contract includes multiple models or all of the same model. 600 BEVs would kick total plugin sales up by one half of 1% for 2016, that’s pretty big coming from a single client. That will be a big chunk of BEVs hitting the used car market when those leases expire.

No, they won’t plug it in. They will argue and debate that they couldn’t find a plug-in and just use gasoline. End of discussion.

I am pleasantly surprised that a US government agency actually figure this one out. Hopefully they will only put the cars in locations that have good quick charging infrastructure like the West Coast Of the USA.

Obviously, San Diego is a huge Navy town and we will be very happy to have many more EVs.

If they still make Rav4EV, they could’ve contracted out Chademo to Quick Charge Power. I wonder if you can apply for part of this so they can select non-DCFC for conversion (FocusEV?). Then you’d get expertise in conversion for new car for free as well as having customer.

This is the requirements for the contract. From what I read, a Tesla would be very fitting as the web-based telematics is already there, the roadside assistance may be a little more work for Tesla, but a few more employees doing Ranger work and they are good!

Even Government agencies lease, so they can take advantage of the $7500 tax credit that they, like so many private citizens, don’t have a tax obligation to offset the tax credit. I’m sure they would buy them if it was a credit to the manufacturer at the sale of a BEV.

Whether or not it’s “real”… well, just look at the outline of the tires of the X vs the S, and you can see the perspective is rather different. I’m guessing the image (photo? computer render?) of the X was squashed horizontally before being Photoshopped in. Contrariwise, the S looks a bit stretched, so perhaps that’s also Photoshopped in.

RE used cars, as ex-military, I’d be as interested in an ex-military Tesla as a LA police car Tesla.. jus’ sayin..

Seems like they have a Lot o’ money to devote to these performing to spec – a Fleet of mX with military insignia, particularly if they could keep ’em on the road forever like -most- military vehicle (see also, AMC Hornets, when the company was bankrupt) would be a great statement to veterans, if not the general populace.